The Bleak Picture (Or: The End of the Tale)

November 6, 2009

The difference between the world view of the “truth movement” people and the picture
the Bible portrays of the world we’re living in, is that the adherents to the truth
movement have more optimistic expectations concerning the capabilities and supposed
inherent “goodness” of people. They think that if we just get rid of the bad people, that’ll
do, and everything will be honky-dory. They call all the “good” people to rise up against
the “bad” people, and then we’ll have democracy and peace and freedom and live happily
ever after.

Unfortunately, the Bible tells a more realistic tale about ourselves, of which many say,
“This is an hard saying; who can bear it?“
The problem is that “bad” people often started out as “good people,” and “good people,”
no matter how good, stand every chance to become “bad” once they’re in power, because
power inevitably corrupts.
One classic example of this is the Jewish king David, considered by far the best king the
Jews ever had, who of all people really should have known better: having been
persecuted and haunted by his predecessor Saul for half his life, having to seek refuge in
caves and with the enemies of his people, what does he do once he becomes king?
Falls in love with his neighbor and sees to it that her husband is killed in battle.
And that was the best that “God’s people” ever came up with, so, you can only imagine
how rotten the rest of the world is, and contrary to the fable of evolution, I have news for
you: we’re not getting better all the time!
 If the Bible is any sort of authority on the human psyche at all, it certainly paints a more
sinister picture:
“The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth,” (Genesis 8:21), “He that
trusteth in his own heart is a fool” (Proverbs 28:26), “The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) and “There is none
that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12).
Incidentally, even Jesus refused to let anyone call Him “good,” (Mark 10:18), and if
anyone on earth ever should have been able to deserve that attribute, it certainly ought to
have been the Son of God…
So much on the goodness of the “good” from the highest possible Authority.
And as far as the immediate future of our world is concerned, the Bible does not predict
that an army of “good” people will rise up to stand up against the Antichrist before he
comes to power or force him off his throne.
First of all, the one sin that folks like Alex Jones and his friends seem to underestimate is
the ever present fear in the hearts of the majority of the people.
(As illustrated by the large majority still writing off any suspicions about the official
version of the 9/11 incidents as “Conspiracy theories,” or the masses that are thronging to
get their swine flu vaccination…)
What they also seem to underestimate is people’s love for darkness, as opposed to the
truth (see John 3:19). They’re a lot more willing to accept an attractive and comfortable
lie than the ugly truth.
Which is also what explains the Endtime scenario that the Bible depicts: Evidently there
will be a resistance movement against the Antichrist, and there will obviously be
survivors of his “war against the saints” (otherwise there’d be no one left for Jesus to pick
up in the Rapture, which will not happen before the Tribulation).
But the weapons the members of that movement will avail themselves of will most
certainly not be guns or bombs or Molotow cocktails.
In Revelation chapter 11 we find the account of two outstanding members of the
Antichrist-Resistance, and we find here that the weapons they will wield will be
supernatural (see 11:5, 6).
But it’s not like they will be members of some huge and massive movement the type that
Alex Jones and friends seem to dream of. In fact, when those two will finally be killed, it
says that the citizens of the world will celebrate their execution as if it were a new
version of Christmas (verses 9, 10).
The picture of events when “the shit hits the fan” as portrayed by Alex is more that of the
innocent masses of citizens having to defend themselves from the bad NWO cops.
I’m afraid that those citizens won’t be all that innocent anymore once Helter Skelter is
being let loose, and the supermarkets will already have been robbed clean.
If they mow down their fellow humans already not, during peace times, I don’t want to
know what it’s going to be like then, when the average Joe is going to have to show just
how good he is at “dog eat dog.”
And I doubt that people around the globe are going to behave like all them fine Christian
folk in Texas.
After all, the great Tribulation is not called “Tribulation” for nothing. It’s not going to be
your average Hollywood type of adventure where the good ones are going around
dodging bullets while all the bad people fall left and right. It’s going to be hell on earth. If
you think it’s bad now, cheer up, it could be worse, and it’s going to be.
There is going to be an insurgence against the Antichrist, from what I understand, at the
battle of Armageddon, where 200 million horsemen, presumably from the East (Rev.
16:12) will march toward Jerusalem, but they’re not going to be your local American
truth lovers and self-made Rambos. They’re most likely going to be those we generally
label “terrorists” today, the large part of the Muslim world that will refuse to bow down
to the image erected to the Antichrist, because idolatry was already what they hated about
Christianity, and why their religion got started in the first place.
But even they wouldn’t stand a chance without the supernatural intervention of Him
Who was sent into this world for the one purpose: to save it. The very name He chose for
His earthly existence means “Savior,” and the first time around He came to save us from
ourselves. The second time He will come to save us from the one who was the culprit to
begin with, and created the need for us to be saved…
A fairy tale?
Okay, so you go ahead and believe in your fairy tale, that all intelligent life sprang forth
from life-less matter and keeps evolving into better and better “good” people all the time,
and I believe mine.
The fundamental difference lies with the authors. And I guess only the end of the tale will
tell which of the two will have told the truth.
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